I've got an elder Pentium II, and it suddenly started to behave like
that after a Netbsd upgrade, I'd think it was 1.5 maybe. Something have
been done to the bootloader so it won't cooperate with elder bioses. I'd
had to do an bios upgrade.

Cincerely,
Sigmund

Sun, 16,.07.2006 kl. 15.22 -0500, skrev Reed Sheridan:
> I've recently installed NetBSD on an old Dell, and it doesn't boot
> properly.  It goes to a screen that says "fn: diskn \n 1: NetBSD," but
> when I press 1 it says "error ?"
> 
> I can boot with the boot cd by entering "boot hd0a:netbsd" from the boot prompt.
> 
> I've tried running fdisk -B wd0 and fdisk -i wd0 (and fdisk -B wd0
> again after that), but it hasn't helped.
> 
> There's nothing fancy here: just one disk with one partition running
> NetBSD and nothing else.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Reed Sheridan